1. Terms of Reference, Membership and Report ISCB35 Vienna 2014: AGM Wed 27 Aug ISCB Sub-Committee SCA

2. 2 InformationTerms of Reference Members Student Conference Award iscb-stud-conf-awrd@ googlegroups.com 1.Student conference awards are available for registered postgraduate students to attend the annual conference and present a paper. 2.The Subcommittee shall receive submissions, judge them, and administer the awards. 3.The rules and procedures are announced in a timely issue of the Newsletter and on the ISCB annual conference webpage. Chair: 1. Ulrich Mansmann (G) Secretary: 2. Nadine Binder (G) Members: 3. Keith Abrams (UK) 4. Carl-Fredrik Burman (Sweden) 5. Richard Cook (Canada) 6. Katherine Lee (Australia) 7. Chris Metcalfe (UK) 8. Dimitris Rizopoulos (The Netherlands) 9.Jean-Christophe Thalabard (France) 10. Jeremy Taylor (USA)

3.  The Subcommittee meeting was held on Wednesday, 26 August, following the last scientific session of the day, in Munich, Germany during the 2013 Annual Conference.  Nadine Binder organised an informal meeting for young scientists at Tuesday evening which was a big success (Young Researcher Get Together). 3

4.  For the 2014 Annual Conference all members participated in the evaluation and selection process.  We received 26 SCA applications: 7 applicants from the United Kindom, 5 applicants from Belgium, 3 applicants from the Netherlands, 3 applicants from Greece, 2 applicants from Germany, 1 applicant from Australia, 1 applicant from Iran, 1 applicant from Israel, 1 applicant from Italy, 1 applicant from France, 1 applicant from Sweden. 4

5. 5 NameCountryUniversityTitleSession Liu, Hsiao-Yin United Kindom Queen Mary, University of London Group Sequential Monitoring of Response- Adaptive Randomised Clinical Trials with Censored Survival Data C24 Ternès, Nils France Universite Gustave Roussy An extension of the lasso penalization to reduce false positive selection in high- dimensional Cox models C31 Andrinopoulo u, Eleni- Rosalina The Netherla nds Erasmus Medical Center Combined Dynamic Predictions using Joint Models of Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes and Competing Risk Data C15 Robertson, David United Kingdo m MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge Correcting for bias in the detection and validation of informative diagnostic tests C35  After a review of the 26 SCA applications, the committee found four excellent contribution: